The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, producer of 40 percent of the world's oil, will hold an emergency meeting on Oct. 19 to discuss a 1 million barrel-a-day output cut, an OPEC delegate said. The group will meet in Doha, Qatar, a United Arab Emirates official who declined to be identified said in a telephone interview today. OPEC members were informed of the meeting today by the group's acting secretary general, Nigeria's Mohammed Barkindo, the U.A.E. official said. Members will discuss a ``voluntary'' supply cut aimed at reviving oil prices that have fallen by a quarter in the last three months. The group will debate whether to reduce actual production or OPEC's 28 million barrel-a-day output quota. The 10 members with quotas pumped 27.6 million barrels a day last month, according to Bloomberg data. Iraq is exempted from the quota system. ... http://www.bloomberg.com

A Romanian TV station released a video Saturday that it said shows Chinese forces fatally shooting a Tibetan refugee who was with a group of people trying to flee to Nepal in an incident that prompted an international outcry. The video from Pro TV shows a distant figure that its narrator says is a Chinese border guard firing a rifle and a separate scene of a person in a line of figures walking through the snow falling to the ground. An unidentified man near the camera can be heard saying in English, "They are shooting them like, like dogs." Pro TV, Romania's biggest private TV station, said the video was shot Sept. 30 by Sergiu Matei, a Romanian cameraman with an expedition climbing Cho Oyu, a Himalayan peak near China's border with Nepal. The activist group International Campaign for Tibet, in a written statement, said the video proves Chinese troops fired at unarmed Tibetans and disproves Beijing's statement this week that its forces acted in self-defense after being attacked...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,220839,00.html

An Egyptian border guard was shot dead on Saturday in the Sinai peninsula while on patrol along the Israeli border and another critically wounded, security sources said.Several Egyptian security sources at the border said preliminary investigations showed the two guards may have had a dispute with a third border guard, who then shot them. But other Egyptian security sources said it was too early to draw any conclusions and an investigation would focus on all possibilities, including that the fire may have come from Israel. Those sources said the investigation into the shooting near el-Kuntilla, 55 km (35 miles) northwest of the border town of Taba, would also look into the possibility that the border guards were shot in a shootout with smugglers, or in a dispute with another guard. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2567561

Pregnant with her fifth child, Chytoria Graham often walked the streets of her working-class neighborhood, happily pushing her 1-year-old in a stroller while the other children walked alongside her. "I've never seen her without her kids," said Loretta Ritchie, who lives near Graham. "She always kept the girls' hair combed, dressed real pretty." But now Graham's children have been taken from her by authorities except for 4-week-old Jarron. He is in a hospital after a horrific event that has stunned police and prosecutors, and prompted strangers who read about him to offer to adopt the boy: Authorities say she grabbed the infant by his feet and swung him, hitting her boyfriend and fracturing the baby's skull. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2567668

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of a resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea over its claimed nuclear test. Resolution 1718 imposes weapons and financial sanctions but is not backed by the threat of military force. North Korea's UN envoy said he totally rejected the resolution and walked out. After hours of talks, China agreed to back the resolution but said it had "reservations" about provisions for cargo checks on North Korean ships. US President George W Bush said the UN had taken a "swift and tough" step to show its determination to keep the Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. North Korea's UN envoy, Pak Gil Yon, left the UN chamber after rejecting the "unjustifiable" resolution and accusing the Security Council of neglecting US pressure on North Korea. He warned that any increase in US pressure would be considered as a "declaration of war". ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6051704.stm

A South African company bought the world's 15th-largest rough diamond Monday, paying more than $12 million for the golf ball sized gem found in the tiny Southern Africa country of Lesotho, officials said. South African Diamond Corp., the overseas-based manufacturing arm of famed British gem seller Graff Jewelers, purchased the 603-carat stone for $12.4 million, said Lesotho's Natural Resources Minister Mamphono Khaketla, whose government co-owned the gem with a private concern, Gem Diamonds. "We called the diamond the 'Lesotho Promise.' We promise you more of the same and better in the future," Khaketla told reporters in the Belgian city's diamond district. South African Diamond Corp. said it plans to turn the raw stone into one cut gem above 60 carats in addition to other, smaller stones, with a final sale price of more than $20 million. Experts have graded the stone "class D," saying it is of the clearest quality, with no color blemishes. ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/10/tech/main2076558.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2076558